Prosecutor Corruption Case: Lawyer Šarūnas Mickevičius released from arrest



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As the representative of the Office of the Attorney General Elena Martinonienė informed BNS, she was sentenced to lighter preventive detention measures, a written commitment not to leave, and the seizure of documents.

Š. Mickiewicz and ten others were arrested on May 13 in a pre-trial investigation into influence peddling, bribery, abuse and bribery.

On May 14, the Vilnius District Court allowed him to be arrested for ten days, and from May 23, the arrest lasted for another ten days.

Also on May 14, the court allowed the arrest of prosecutors Nerijus Marcinkevičius and Donatas Puzinas suspects in this case and an official from the Financial Crime Investigation Service (FNTT) Nerijus Valatkas.

D.Puzinas and N.Valatka were detained for ten days, and N.Marcinkevičius was detained for seven days.

At the end of the initial detention period, prosecutors did not request an extension of detention, and less severe detention measures were granted to D. Puzinas, N. Valatka and N. Marcinkevičius.

Other detainees were immediately imprisoned without regard to their freedom, including the Prosecutor Ugnis Vyčinas. They are also committed in writing not to abandon and take documents.

The investigation began after receiving data that prosecutors from the Prosecutor’s Department of the Prosecutor General N. Marcinkevičius and U.Vyčinas, the prosecutor of the Second Prosecutor’s Division of the Kaunas D.Puzinas Regional Prosecutor’s Office and the Head of the Criminal Investigation Division of the FNTT Vilnius Regional Board of each other, informally meets with attorney Š. Mickevičius who practices in Kaunas and discusses the course of pre-trial financial and economic investigations at his disposal, undisclosed data and possibilities for procedural decisions in which private persons not officially represented by this lawyer are interested.

This is considered a material or other benefit in some cases.

Attorney General Evaldas Pašilis said “such actions could have been taken in particularly significant cases of property waste in Ūkio bankas, in cases of the Credit Union.”

The pre-trial investigation into alleged trafficking, bribery, abuse and bribery is conducted by the Organized Crime and Corruption Investigation Department of the Office of the Attorney General and the Special Investigation Service.



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